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/*
 Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

 This file is part of lightblue.

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see .
 */
package com.redhat.lightblue.crud;

import com.redhat.lightblue.metadata.EntityMetadata;

/**
 * This resolver should return the correct version of the entity metadata based
 * on the current operation context. If the operation involves an entity
 * containing references to other entities, the mediator pre-loads the correct
 * versions for all relevant entities, and serves them using an implementation
 * of this interface.
 */
public interface MetadataResolver {

    /**
     * Return the correct version of the entity metadata based on current
     * context
     */
    EntityMetadata getEntityMetadata(String entityName);
}